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This season, Indashio, who showed his Fall 2011 collection, titled "Gaudy," Wednesday night at the Metropolitan Pavilion, was inspired by Liberace and Trident Vitality Gum.
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"Gaudy" was going a bit far in the description of any item of my current wardrobe, but I did my best, hastily tying a yellow linen skirt around my waist and replacing my plain white kerchief with one Jocasta had sent me, embroidered with cherries.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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Especially Gaudy Night, which is the one where they get serious and really mesh!
My Top Six Declarations Of (Heterosexual) Love karenhealey 2010
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"Gaudy, but shoddy," is how U.S. Army historian Lt. Col.
Turf Battle Forms Over Hussein's Palaces Sam Dagher 2011
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"Gaudy is Good" was one of two guiding principles of most Victorian architectural aesthetics.
A Victorian fantasy, in stone Philip Kennicott 2011
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I think 1, 3, and 6 are my favorites too --- this makes me want to go reread Gaudy Night!
My Top Six Declarations Of (Heterosexual) Love karenhealey 2010
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One more on the list of offences that need to be punishable crimes … I agree with you that Gaudy Night is a very intriguing story, and I remember enjoying very much in your post the point that Peter and Harriet have to work out their relationship to the previous case and each other through the events of this one – quite unusual in the mystery formula.
Agatha Christie and Guilt « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
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"Gaudy, but shoddy," is how U.S. Army historian Lt. Col.
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This didn't stop me from enjoying Strong Poison and Gaudy Night.
mrissa: Spoilers! mrissa 2010
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Gaudy in its interior but comfortable as hell, everyone in the classical music industry wants to know what it sounds like.
Laurence Vittes: Clap Between Movements: LA, Pasadena & Versailles Laurence Vittes 2010
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